In a few short years, two decades will be between Nicolas Winding Refn and his second feature film, “Bleeder.” While the director’s works before his breakout “Drive” — the “Pusher” trilogy, “Bronson,” and “Valhalla Rising” among them — are mostly easily seen, for whatever reason, “Bleeder” has fallen to the side over time.

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The Venice Film Festival is always one of the highlights of the film-going year, and the line-up announced this morning for its 73rd installment, which kicks off next month, suggests that that’ll certainly be the case again, and that Cannes more and more faces some stiff competition from its waterbound competitor.

Venice has sometimes risked being overshadowed by TIFF by the U.S. press at least, but after a killer run of premieres in recent years including big Oscar-players like “Gravity,” “Birdman” and “Spotlight,” it’s attracting big-ticket movies as well as the usual great selection of world cinema that it’s always displayed.

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This week, just a month or so after it premiered in Cannes to a now-traditional Refn reception of mingled admiration and jeers (we were among the admirers), “The Neon Demon” comes to theaters. But though we enjoyed splashing about in its overly stylized, glossily shot shallows, where does “The Neon Demon” sit amid the Danish filmmaker’s catalogue? We figured now would be a good time to revisit his filmography, considering the last time we did so was before the release of his later-career-defining, Cannes Best Director-winning “Drive.”

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Refn (who is colorblind, trivia fans, and can’t see mid-colors, hence the high level of contrast in all his works) was pretty much born into the business, his mother a successful photographer, his father himself a director and editor in the Danish film industry (he cut Lars von Trier‘s “Breaking the Waves” and “Antichrist,” which makes Refn’s recent trashtalking about his fellow Dane all the more, um, cutting).

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Interview: Nicolas Winding Refn Talks 'The Act Of Seeing', Why There's No Sex In His Films, 'The Neon Demon,' And More

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The Road To 'Drive': The Films Of Nicolas Winding Refn

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